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- President Obama and former President Clinton will get together "fairly soon" to debrief on North Korea, Gibbs said, but probably not before Obama's trip to Mexico this weekend.

- Addressing reports that the administration is planning to split up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Gibbs said GSE reform is on the agenda and that staff are "aware of the problem and working on it as a part of financial regulatory reform" – but no decisions have been made.

- On health care, Gibbs told reporters that reconciliation is still on the table as an option for passing reform legislation. But, he said, Obama is interested in passing a bill "first and foremost through regular order."

- Looking ahead to Friday's jobs report, Gibbs predicted "we'll see several hundred thousand jobs lost...I expect that we'll see an uptick in that unemployment rate."

- Gibbs said finding a mechanism to extend unemployment benefits is a top priority for the Obama administration and claimed there is "bipartisan" interest in doing so.